Curtain and shade holding bracket



E.E. MOORE.

CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDING BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 1919.

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ELMER E. IVIOORE, OF MARTINS FERRI,

OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM F.

RYAN, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CURTAIN AND SI-IADE HOLDING BRACKET.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Appneauon sie@ :rune 4., isis. serial no. 301,642.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Martins Ferry, in the county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Curtain and Shade Holding Bracket, of which the following is a specication.

My invention has for its purpose to provide an improved construction of combined window shade and curtain holding bracket of a simple and inexpensive character, in which the parts are especially designed for being quickly and conveniently adjusted for suspending the curtain pole closely to or some distance from the window and in which the supports :tor the ends of the shade are self-adjusting to adapt them to window shade rollers of different lengths.

My invention also seeks to provide an appliance of the character stated :tor conveniently placing the shade roller supports along the brackets to give `or take-up, should the shade blind be too short or too long relatively to the applied brackets.

With the above and other objects in view, my combined curtain and shade bracket consists of the peculiar arrangement and combination of the parts explained in the following description, specifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved curtain and shade holding brackets.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof and showing the same as operatively applied to a window casing.

Fig. 3 is a similar 'view ot an opposing bracket member as applied to a window casing.

Fig. 4 is a detail cross section of one of the brackets taken on the line 4 4 on Fig. 2.

In the practical application of my invention, the main bracket 1, preferably of strap metal bent to shape, is of substantially triangular shape and the upper and horizontal member 2V thereof has a series of apertures 3, the purpose of which will presently apear. P The inner end of the member 2 and the lower end of the diagonally inclined member 4 of the said bracket terminate in angled foot portions 5 5, each apertured to receive the screws 6, 6 that secure the brackets to the window casing, as shown.

7, 7 designate rods of suitable diameter and the said rods have their outer ends bent up at right angles to provide relatively long vertical standards 8, 8 Jfor receiving the pole supporting brackets 9, 9.

Each of the brackets 9, 9 includes an up per and lower apertured member 10 and 11- for slidably engaging the standards 8, 8, when the parts are assembled for supporting the curtain pole 12, as is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. g

The rods 7, i have their inner ends bent downwardly at right angles to ormhangers 13 adapted for extending down through any one of the apertures 3 in their respec tively engaging bracket members 2 and to provide for positively'interlocking the rods with the said members 2, the hangers termi* nate in angledends 14 that prevent the rods from pulling od the said members 2, as will be clearly understood by reference to Fig. 4.

In assembling the curtain supporting rod, the outer or standard ends thereof are' irst slipped up through the selected apertures 3,

3 and are so manipulated that the rods assume the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

rEhe shade holding elements which constitute one of the essential features of my invention, of which there is one for each of the oppositely disposed brackets consisting of a strap metal member 15 whose inner and outer ends are bent at right angles upwardly and constitute inner and outer brackets 16, 16 and 17, 17.

rllhe inner brackets 16 of one of the shade holders has the usual slot 18, see Fig. 1, for the reception of the usual square shaped journal of the shade roller, and the inner 'bracket 16 of the other or opposing shade holder has the usual round aperture, see Fig. 3.

Each of the members 15 are secured to the diagonal members 4 of their respective brackets 1, in the manner best shown in Fig. 1, which illustrates a clamp guide 18 whose opposite ends 19, 19 are bent down from the central portion 2O and have apertures for receiving the securing screws 21, 21 adapted for engagement with the selected ones of threaded apertures 22, 22 arranged lengthwise in the member 4.

By attaching the guides 18 tothe incline bracket members 4, a simple and convenient means is provided for adjustably starting the shade holding members l5 along their coincident bracket members et to give or takeup the lower end of the blind,'should it be alittle short or too long, since in the practical arrangementof the bracket partssulii-` cient adjustment of the member. l5, up Vand do-ivn, the bracket member 4 is yprovided for to allow of several inches riseor fall of the bottomv of the shade, when adjusting the same.

Each member l5 is longitudinally slidable and is automatically adjustable in the direc- `tion of its length, by a coil spring 23, one end of which is secured to the outermost bracket l7and the other member tothe guide 18', through which the rod member l5 slides` 25 indicates afguide attached to the horizontal: member 2 of the bracket l, Which guide includes a bifurcated vertical portion ,in whichv the rod 7 seats and is held from lateral displacement.

2G designates the usual four leaf clamp screw .Which is used in connection with the support 9.

inclined portion, the said horizontal and in. "clined' portions terminating in apertured tures therein;

feet, and connected at their other end to con- Ystitute a sustaining bracket, the vinclined for holding` the said support in position to engage With the end of the shade roller.

2. An appliance for holding curtains and shades comprising` a bracket composed ot a body having a horizontal portion and an inclined portion, `the Asaid horizontal and inclined portions terminating in ,apertured feet, and connected at theirother end to constitute a sustaining' bracket, the inclined .portion of said bracket having adjusting .aperf tures, a guidev .adj usta'bly secured to the said inclined member, and a shade support .slidable through thesaid guides, and means for holdingthe saidsupportin position to engage with the endet `theshade roller, the said means comprising spring.

An appliance for holding curtains and shades comprising a :bracket composedof a body having aY horizontal vportionv and an inclined portion, y:the said horizontal and inclined portions terminating in aper'tured feet, and connected at their other end to constitute a sustaining bracket, the inclined-portion of' said bracket having adjusting apertures, a.V guide adjustably secured to the lsaid inclined member, and a shadesupport slidable through the sai-d guides, and means for .holding'the said supper-tin position to engage with the endroit' :the shade roller, the

said means comprising a spring, the saidjc f horizontalportion-of vthe bracket lhaving a seriesofadjustment aperturesand a cur-tarn rod holder mounted von `'the vsaid horizontal vportion and cooperative with :the said aper- Y* i nnMnn n. Moons. 

